Moodle Lesson Tool

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Authored natively in Moodle, the Moodle lesson module allows you to create engaging, interactive learning packages. The lesson module presents to students a series of HTML pages of either lesson content or questions (which can be graded or not). A lesson page generally requires students to make some sort of choice once they have read the content or answered the questions. Their choice determines which page they are shown next in the sequence.

All you need to get started with the Moodle lesson tool is access to Moodle. The Learning and Teaching Unit provides step-by-step instructions and further useful information to help you get started: Create a lesson in Moodle.

Training and Support:

A wide range of free training resources for Moodle Lesson Tool can be found on Lynda.com, which UNSW Australia has a licence to. You can access Lynda.com HERE using your UNSW zID and password.

A number of video tutorials can also be found on YouTube. Please click HERE to go directly to Moodle Lesson Tool turorial videos.

In this example the Moodle Lesson Tool was used to create post-lab support material and exercises.

Trevor Lewis

To aid students who were unable to complete an experiment, the Moodle Lesson Tool was used to create a post-lab exercise for students to have access to a complete data set from the experiment to confirm their understanding of the data analysis and the key concepts of the lab. This provided greater clarity to the students as to the interpretation of the data and the conclusions that are reached. Due to time constraints, the Moodle Lesson Tool was chosen as it is easy to produce in Moodle without having to leave the Moodle environment, and is fairly intuitive to construct. It also provided the opportunity to explore the potential of the tool. It is a good way to combine the presentation of information with some testing of comprehension. A reasonable range of different question types are available.

However, there are limitations to the appearance of the questions on the screen and how the answers are presented and the analytics on the responses is rather basic – only the percentage of responses to each choice can be extracted. Future use of this tool would depend on the application.